The relationship between teaching styles and student academic achievement is considered. Results of research studies on direct and indirect teaching styles, formal and informal styles, teacher clarity and enthusiasm, and the effects of different types of feedback to students are discussed. Specifically considered are the use of questions…

An exploratory study investigated the effects of two organizational patterns of microsimulation experiences (concurrently with or sequentially to student teaching) on the verbal teaching behavior of student teachers trained in the Reciprocal Category System of Interaction Analysis (RCS) as compared to their counterparts who received no RCS…

This document presents four correlated studies based on (1) the concept of "micro-criteria" which narrows the dimensions of investigating teacher effectiveness through the variable (explaining), the potential correlates (classroom behavior), and the rating of effectiveness (pupil achievement) and (2) data from an initial experiment in…

THIS STARTER BIBLIOGRAPHY LISTS 154 BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND MONOGRAPHS PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1932 AND 1968 IN THE SUBJECT AREA BROADLY DESIGNATED AS "PLANNED CHANGE." EMPHASIS IS ON THE SCHOOL AS A SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND THE CONTRIBUTION OF SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT IN AFFECTING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE. SCHEMATIC FIGURES ARE INCLUDED TO CLARIFY ORGANIZATION OF…

Minicourse 1, a short microteaching program designed to change 12 specific classroom behaviors involved in conducting a discussion lesson, relies heavily on filmed illustrations by model teachers and provides feedback through carefully structured teacher self-evaluation of televised lesson replays. A study was designed (1) to estimate the degree…

The Teacher Behavior Questionnaire was designed to measure the nature of the organization structure of schools in terms of the behavior of teachers as observed by fellow teachers on a school staff. The development of the Questionnaire consisted of modifying the School Organizational Inventory (Punch) in several ways: each item was changed to…

In a self-confrontation experiment student teachers were put through an extensive test battery containing personality tests, cognitive tests, and attitude tests. An analysis is presented of the influence of personality on the student teachers' perception and evaluation during confrontation with their own video-recorded micro-lessons. Using a…

This publication provides a periodic report on the changes begun in the New York City public schools under the direction of the City College Advisory Service to Open Corridors. The Open Corridor concept involves a cluster of classrooms around a single corridor which is used as an activity center. Children from the various classrooms may go to the…

The Peterson-Yaakobi Q-Sorts (PYQS) were developed to provide a simple, effective, easily scored self-concept test which is role specific, is an alternative to paper-pencil inventories or questionnaires, and does not require external inference or norms. This manual describes two double Q-sorts. This first PYQS is for classroom and student teachers…

This report on teacher competence in the field of early childhood education is divided into six sections. The first section outlines the rationale for the study and defines its particular thrust. The main intention of the survey is to describe and define the tasks and requisite skills of early childhood teachers in supporting families in the care…

In a study of the use of videotaping to modify teacher behaviors, five teachers in a reading and learning skills center were filmed in interaction with students; they then observed and measured their own "on-task" and "off-task" behaviors while viewing a series of taped sessions. A control group of two teachers had pretest and posttest filming…

This study describes a workshop designed to improve elementary science instruction by encouraging teachers to discard the "spectator" mode of participation and become involved in a program designed to be compatible to the objectives and philosophy of the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS). A random sample of 224 teachers (the…

Studies have not made clear what specific teacher competencies are important for teachers of health occupations in secondary schools or vocational centers. This study, therefore, used Flanagan's Critical Incident Technique to collect reports of observed teacher behaviors which students perceived as being especially effective or ineffective for…

A two-year evaluation of William Glasser's Schools Without Failure (SWF) program was carried out in the New Castle School District in Pennsylvania. In the first year, ten elementary schools were paired on the basis of size, socioeconomic status, and past achievement of pupils. One school of each pair was randomly assigned to begin teacher-training…

Parent-run free schools (parent coops) differ markedly from public schools in size and organizational structure, but this paper shows that these new institutions share the problem of teacher supervision. Conclusions are based on intensive study of three parent coops using both participant observation and interviewing. Parent coops must deal with a…